THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM AND SPEAKING ABILITY OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS IN SMKN 03 KOTABUMI ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

Abstract

Self-esteem is important thing in human life because self-esteem is used to describe a person's personal value. With self-respect we can know the overall view of a person on ourselves or our view of others. Therefore, we must be able to maintain our self-esteem, so that we can give a good impression to every human being. Similar to a student, students must have high self-esteem in order to overcome their lack of confidence when speaking in front of teachers and in front of many people. This research aimed to find out the correlation between students’ self-esteem and students’ speaking ability of tenth grade at SMKN 03 Kotabumi. This research used correlational research. Random sampling technique was applied to select the sample. Population of this research was tenth grade at SMKN 03 Kotabumi which consists of 405 students. The total of sample of this research was 43 students. The instrument used to collect the data were an oral test and questionnaire of students self-esteem. The result of this research showed that Ha is accepted with the result of hypothesis test tobserved is greater than ttable which is 33,270 ≥ 1.681, it means that there is significant correlation between students’ self-esteem and speaking ability of the tenth grade students in SMKN 03 Kotabumi academic year 2020/2021.